The 500-page report is the first government-commissioned study on harm against the African American community since the 1968 Kerner Commission report ordered by then-President Lyndon Johnson.
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The report is expected to lay out how California supported slavery before it was technically abolished and oppressed Black residents through discriminatory laws and practices in education, home ownership, employment and the courts. Despite it being a"free" state, an estimated 1,500 enslaved African Americans lived in California in 1852, according to the draft report. The Ku Klux Klan flourished in California, with members holding positions in law enforcement and city government. African American families were forced to live in segregated neighborhoods that were more likely to be polluted.
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